CPC Main Group
B41M 1/00 Inking and printing with a printer's forme
Filing statistics
CPC B41M 1/00 belongs to the parent subclass B41M, which recorded 47,718 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings declined from 3,806 in 2013 to 3,014 in 2023 (-21%), peaking at 5,781 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class B41 are SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (8,446 applications), SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (8,438 applications) and HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (7,828 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
10 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B41M 1/02 Letterpress printing, e.g. book printing
- B41M 1/06 Lithographic printing
- B41M 1/10 Intaglio printing
- B41M 1/12 Stencil printing; Silk-screen printing
- B41M 1/14 Multicolour printing
- B41M 1/22 Metallic printing; Printing with powdered inks
- B41M 1/24 combined with embossing (printing machines for carrying out printing operations combined with embossing B41F19/02)
- B41M 1/26 Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper (B41M1/40 takes precedence)
- B41M 1/40 Printing on bodies of particular shapes, e.g. golf balls, candles, wine corks
- B41M 1/42 Printing without contact between forme and surface to be printed, e.g. by using electrostatic fields
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 8,446
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,438
- HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,828
- CANON JP 5,419
- CANON 4,156
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,763
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES 2,779
- RICOH COMPANY JP 2,717
- FUJIFILM JP 2,423
- RICOH COMPANY 1,739